Integrating TomTom Digital Cockpit
When TomTom Digital Cockpit is running in a car it can potentially communicate with many subsystems and sensors in the car. This can be to provide status of various inputs, for example which doors and windows are open or closed, or to be able to set a setting from the UI, for example setting the current driving mode in the car.
This requires integration with the hardware, and TomTom Digital Cockpit is built on top of the Android Automotive OS, which provides a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that provides a consistent interface to the many different physical transport layers in the car.
Read more about vehicle integration of TomTom Digital Cockpit in the Integration into a Vehicle section.
When developing the TomTom Digital Cockpit platform, we have used a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e as reference hardware. We also provide a reference image for this, based on the LineageOS, which in turn is based on Android Automotive. For TomTom Digital Cockpit to obtain the correct permissions in the Android platform, it needs to run as a system application, and signed with the platform key. Read more about how run the application on reference hardware in the Run the Application on a Reference Tablet section.
TomTom Digital Cockpit also comes with support for a companion application to extend the TomTom Digital Cockpit platform experience with functionality from the user's mobile phone. Read more about the Companion Application and how to connect to the TomTom Digital Cockpit product.